Islamic Work Ethic: Do Demographic Factors matter?
Journal Title: IOSR journal of Business and Management - Year 2018, Vol 20, Issue 10
Abstract
This study is meant to investigate the associative role between demographic factors and compliance behavior towards Islamic Work Ethic (IWE) of Sharia Banks’employees in Medan, Indonesia. Those Sharia Banks consisted of public as well as private owned institutions. There were 10 Sharia Banks in Medan were involved in this study. The questionnaires were distributed to those Sharia Banks’ employees using convenience sampling method. Out of 290 distributed questionnaires, there were only 217 questionnaires were returned in complete answer. The data further analyzed using SPSS version 22 starting from testing the validity of the data, which was meant to ensure that the data was valid to be analyzed. Then followed by reliability test to ensure either the instruments of variable measurement were reliable or not as indicators of a variable. Crosstab analysis was also executed to find out the existence of the association between Sharia Banks’ employees’ demographic factors and their compliance behavior towards IWE. The study found that the association between Sharia Banks’ employees’ demographic factors and their compliance behavior towards IWE did not exist. In addition, the overall Sharia Banks’ employees’ was also found to be compliant to IWE. The findings indicated that IWE is very well accepted as well as implemented by Sharia Banks’ employees’ in Medan.
Authors and Affiliations
Permanan Ginting Munthe, M. Yasir Nasution, Saparuddin Siregar
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